“One thing I’ve learned in my program is that guilt is a wasted emotion, you know? Look back on the past but… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“America's been living on borrowed time all these years... Playing the world's whore, wallowing in our greed. Now we're going to pay… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“Life is a river," she repeated. "Only in the most literal sense are we born on the same day we leave our… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“Life is not a series of isolated ponds and puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“I wonder what my baby is thinking at this moment," he called, rubbing his stomach with his hands. What I was thinking… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“For a quick moment, I saw Grandma as she saw herself: a decent woman whom God, for unfathomable reasons, had chosen to… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there.… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths:… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we want something to be true so badly that we convince ourselves that it is true.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. — Wally Lamb Copy Share
But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but… — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“And in taking on the subject of themselves-making themselves vulnerable to the unseen reader-they have exchanged powerlessness for for the power that comes with… — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“People had always amazed him, he began. But they amazed him more since the sickness. For as long as the two of them had… — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“So I got my stuff and the girl at the register puts these other things in my bag, too. Little free samples: gum and… — Wally Lamb Copy Share
What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow. — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“Guess what?' I said. 'I have a psychic.' His head tilted questioningly, birdlike. A sidekick?” — Wally Lamb Copy Share
Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat. — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“What I remembered about those seesaw rides was the way Thomas would get mad at me, midride, and evacuate. Send me crashing back down… — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked… — Wally Lamb Copy Share
I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft. — Wally Lamb Copy Share
“As anxious and limited as that love might have been, it had been love nonetheless.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share
![“[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective, begin to see the patterns and dead ends of their pasts, and a way out. That's the funny thing about mazes; what's baffling on the ground begins to make sense…” quote by Wally Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ee2/wally-lamb-1817_dead-end_writing-about-themselves-gives-them-wing_1921724.jpg)
